Here's my contribution. A man is surprising his wife with tickets to Hawaii at her retirement party. The seashell behind the chairs will hold the tickets. I actually have two Hawaiian cakes this weekend but the other isn't done yet.

AThanks MB! Hey, this cake has your initials on it :) I looked at all kinds of different ways to do the waves before choosing this one. The second Hawaiian cake I'm doing is a different method of "wave making".

@Pastrybaglady I adore that cake! I made one for a retiree a few years ago and I know that those chairs are not the easiest things to make. Love your waves! Can't wait to see your other version!

@julia1812 Those TMNT cupcake are just the cutest! I have a question on the super hero ones...did you have a cutter for the batman themed ones? I have a cake coming up in April and will need to do something similar.

Julia, I like the superhero cupcakes best. Can't believe you made so many different kinds of toppers in just one night! There's a lot of detailed work that went into that one! What we do for friends eh?

I'm sharing my latest cake. It's a freebie for my friend's son. They've had many troubles beginning last year- cancer, aneurysm, deaths (yes plural) in their families, and others. I wanted to make something extra special to take their minds off things. The birthday boy is 6 and is mad about Ghostbusters. I used this opportunity to make my first 3d cake of a standing figure, and here's the result. He was a very happy boy- and thank goodness for that because yesterday his dad had said he'd changed his mind and wanted spiderman cake. Right, enough waffling,here's the cake

@julia1812 Thanks! I figured that is what I'm going to have to do. I had already planned to do this with the large emblem but was hoping against hope that there would be a small cookie cutter out there for the little ones!

@petitecat LOVE your cake! He's SOOOO much fun! I have no clue how you made him but he's wonderful!

Cat, just to give you an idea, here's the cake when it was still in progress. I added the legs, then the arms. The head was done separately and I added it last. For the arms, I stuck a straw horizontally into the cake shoulder to shoulder so to speak. Then I inserted thick wires into the straw with some gumpaste to stop the wires moving. The I inserted the arms bit by bit. Fingers were the very last!

Julia, the box is just a cardboard box. I got a photo of buildings off the internet, blew it up to the size I wanted, and printed it out onto paper and stuck them together so it looked like one big photo. Then I stuck this onto the cardboard. I'll get on my phone and get the photo of the box in full so you can see what I've done.

[email protected] I love your cake and it makes me want to be sitting on the beach somewhere.

@julia1812 your cupcakes are amazing. So much details you must have a lot of patience.

@petitecat wow is all I can about your cake and the box is just perfect. What a lucky little boy.

I wasn't really doing any baking until last night my son texted me and asked if I was baking a birthday cake for his wife's birthday tomorrow. So of course I baked her one. The frosting wasn't stiff enough and I ran out of powder sugar. So the flowers are wilting a little.

@pastrylady, your Hawaiian cakes are beautiful! And lucky lady who is going to go to hawaii!
@petitecat, this has got to be one of my fave cakes! How did you ever get the tummy to be that smooth???
@julia, cute cupcakes!
@marian, awww that was very sweet of you to make your DIL's birthday cake :)
@canacake, i love that kind of cross!
@cat, i hope you're feeling 100% better!! :)

My coworker recently suffered a heart attack, and he's a fit and healthy 34 yrs old :( but praise God he pulled through and we're celebrating his birthday and thanksgiving today. So last night (after Sophia's birthday party), i was able to whip this cake up! I chose iron man theme as he now has a defibrillator (pace maker) implanted to help his heart. He's a real life iron man!
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Matty, the castle cake is beautiful. The brand of fondant I bought just seemed to smooth really well. The seams in the back panels pretty much disappeared with enough smoothing, almost like modelling choc.

AI'm late posting, I had a very busy weekend. I had a request for 12 standard red velvet cupcakes which was great because it fell inline with one of the demos I had to make for my Valentine's Day promotion. The cake with the pink frosting is yellow cake and of course the other is the red velvet.